Why does the Bible contain so many errors?

Question

VERSES THAT CONTRADICT THEMSELVES

Genesis 6:3 and Genesis 11:11 - Life limited to 120 years?
Genesis 32:30 and Exodus 33:20 - Jacob's life was preserved?
Exodus 4:22 and Jeremiah 31:9 - Who was God's firstborn?
Numbers 23:19 and Genesis 6:6-7 - Does God repent or not?
2 Samuel 6:23 and 2 Samuel 21:8 - Did Michal have children?
2 Samuel 8:4 and 1 Chronicles 18:4 - 700 or 7000 horsemen?
2 Samuel 8:9-10 and 1 Chronicles 18:9-10 - Toi or Tou? Hadadezer or Hadarezer? Joram or Hadoram?
2 Samuel 10:18 and 1 Chronicles 19:18 - 700 or 7000 charioteers? 40,000 horsemen or footmen? Captain's name?
2 Samuel 24:1 and 1 Chronicles 21:1 - Who provoked David?
2 Samuel 24:9 and 1 Chronicles 21:5 - 800,000 or 100,000?
2 Samuel 24:13 and 1 Chronicles 21:11-12 - 7 or 3 years?
1 Kings 4:26 and 2 Chronicles 9:25 - 40,000 or 4,000 stalls?
1 Kings 5:15-16 and 2 Chronicles 2:2 - 3300 or 3600?
1 Kings 7:26 and 2 Chronicles 4:5 - 2000 or 3000 baths?
2 Kings 8:26 and 2 Chronicles 22:2 - 22 or 42 years old?
2 Kings 24:8 and 2 Chronicles 36:9 - 18 or 8 years old? 3 months or 3 months and 10 days?
Erza 2:65 and Nehemiah 7:67 - 200 or 245 singers?
Matthew 1:12 and Luke 3:27 - Who was Salathiel's father?
Matthew 1:16 and Luke 3:23 - Who was Joseph's father?
Matthew 9:18 and Mark 5:22-23 - Dead or not?
Matthew 10:5-10 and Mark 6:7-8 - Bring a staff or not?
Matthew 15:21-22 and Mark 7:24-26 - The woman was of Canaan or Greece?
Matthew 20:29-30 and Mark 10:46-47 - One or two beggars?
Matthew 21:1-2 and Mark 11:1-2 - What happened to the ***?
Matthew 26:74-75 and Mark 14:72 - Before the **** crow once or twice?
Matthew 27:5 and Acts 1:18 - How did Judas die?
John 3:16 and Psalms 2:7 - Only begotten son?
John 5:31 and John 8:14 - Was Jesus' record true or not?

VERSES THAT CONTRADICT THE TRINITARIAN DOCTRINE AND/OR THE DIVINITY OF JESUS
Exodus 33:20, John 1:18, 1 Timothy 6:16 - No one saw God.
Isaiah 42:8 - Do not praise and worship images.
Isaiah 45:1 - "Anointed" does not mean "God".
Matthew 14:23, 19:13, 26:39, 27:46, 26:42-44 - Jesus prayed.
Matthew 24:36 - Jesus was not all-knowing.
Matthew 26:39 - Jesus and God had different wills.
Matthew 28:18 - All power was given to Jesus.
Mark 1:35, 6:46, 14:35-36 - Jesus prayed.
Mark 10:17-18 and Luke 18:18-19 - Jesus denied divinity.
Mark 12:28-29 - God is one.
Mark 13:32 - Jesus was not all-knowing.
Mark 16:19 and Luke 22:69 - Jesus at the right hand of God.
Luke 3:21, 5:16, 6:12, 9:18, 9:28, 11:1-4, 22:41 - Jesus prayed.
Luke 4:18, 9:48, 10:16 - Jesus was from God.
Luke 7:16, 13:33, 24:18-19 - Jesus was a prophet.
Luke 10:21 - Jesus gave thanks.
Luke 23:46 - The spirit of Jesus was commended to God.
John 4:19 - Jesus was a prophet.
John 4:23-24 - Worship in spirit and truth.
John 14:28 - One was greater than the other.
John 5:19, 5:30, 7:28, 8:28 - Jesus was helpless.
John 5:20 - The Father showed the son.
John 5:30 and 6:38 - Jesus and God had different wills.
John 5:31-32 - Jesus' witness was not true.
John 6:11 and 11:41-42 - Jesus gave thanks.
John 6:32 - The Father was the provider, not the son.
John 7:29, 16:5, 16:28 - Jesus was from God.
John 7:16, 12:49, 14:24, 17:14 - Jesus' words were not his.
John 8:42 - Jesus did not come of himself.
John 10:29 - "My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all."
John 14:1 - Jesus said, "...believe also in me."
John 14:16, 17:1, 17:9, 17:11, 17:15 - Jesus prayed.
John 14:31 and 15:10 - Jesus followed commands.
John 17:6-8 - "I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me."
John 20:17 - Jesus had a god.
Acts 2:22 - Jesus was "a man approved of God."
Romans 8:34 - Jesus was an intercessor.
1 Timothy 2:5 - Jesus was the mediator between God and humans.

Answer 1

because the bible has been corrupted over time and there are many different versions of the Bible because of many peoples different approaches of the bible. But when you look at the noble Quran, it has never been corrupted, and every quran in the world is the same, and there are not many different version such like the bible is because the quran has the same message for people to understand and not to confuse them. Plus there are many maricles in the quran as well, unlike the bible which only tells stories and not what wil happen in the future, and also that every profet came out with same message.......worship god alone. No one is worthy of Worship but Allah(god).

Answer 2

The Bible is inspired of God and therefore contains NO errors.(2Tim:16;2Peter1:21).
You lack indepth understanding of the Bible and that is what makes you think there are contradictions and errors.The verses you mentioned in the first section can all be explained.
For example take the account of Judas's death.According to Matthew 27:5 Judas hanged himself.But Acts 1:18 says,"pitching head foremost he noisily burst in his midst and all his intenstines were poured out".Matthew seems to deal with the mode of the attempted suicide,while Acts describes the result.Combining the two accounts,it appears that Judas tried to hang himself over some cliff,but the rope or the tree limb broke so that he plunged down and burst open on the rocks below.The topography around Jerusalem makes such an event conceivable.
It would take me much too long to go through each one.I suggest to you to consider having a Bible study.Jehovahs Witnesses offer free home bible studies.They have a accurate and thorough understanding of the Holy Scriptures and you would benefit greatly.
In relation to the second lot of verses you have quoted that 'contradict the trinity.'You are correct in saying that because the trinity doctrine is a pagan belief that had been fused into apostate christianity in the third century CE.It is not a Bible teaching.Therefore,there are no contradictions in the verses you have quoted.
Yes,Jesus prayed to his Father.
Yes,his Father was greater than he was.
Yes,Jesus followed his fathers commands.
The Bible teaches that there is one Almightly God who created the heavens and the earth.His name is Jehovah.
Jehovah has a only begotten son who was the first born of all creation,and through him all other things were made.His name is Jesus Christ.
The Holy Spirit is not a person.But it is God's active force,the means He uses to get things done.

Answer 3

it truly is the preconceived bias to push aside each and every of the contradictions which includes your quaint rationalization it truly is interior the way of the genuinely nonbiased seem. A nonbiased seem might want to exhibit that the bible is finished of mistakes, contradictions and discrepencies. it truly is purely with the introduction of your bias that you'll push aside such issues as user-friendly being created earlier the celebrities as very few extraordinary way of asserting another reality. you're forgetting how user-friendly it truly is to interpret an analogous element otherwise. and that is the project. If the bible became so perfect, it would not be open to those different interpretations. utilising this argument, you could declare something is "perfect," you could push aside any argument. And any scientist might want to inform you that an style impervious to mistakes isn't any style in any respect. It would not clarify something if it explains away each and every little thing.

Answer 4

Hopefully there is a bible scholar out there that will give you answers that you are looking for. Try a bible literature class at a local community college(they don't claim any religion and many people have different religions in the class) they will help you with your questions and help you understand what's going on where. Otherwise I would go to a pastor or close to your local christian church. I'm not asking you to change your religion, just try asking people of a faith different than your own. It would be like if I wanted to know more about Muslims and the Quran(I hope that it is spelled right), then I would have to ask an actual Muslim to help answer my questions.

Answer 5

The Holy Scriptures are really God's word inspired by the Holy Spirit,and written down by men.

Contrary to many the Church teaches their inerrancy.

But the Church is also the only interpretor of the Holy Scriptures by the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

The Coraan was written by a renegade monophysite monk who ran into the desert where he met Muhammed who could not write or read together they came up with the heresy of Islam.

Answer 6

It isn't contraindicating, man has changed the bible, and interpreted it wrong.
We must learn HOW to read it. For example, any time you see a small g for god, it is referring to idol worship, as in what the Romans and Egyptians believed in. They did not know God. They prayed to statues and monuments as their gods and goddesses. Only the smartest holy men even had access to the knowledge. The Kings and Pharoahs had to rely on their interpretations to even predict the birth of Jesus. God also said to beware of false prophets, and He said not to worship any other gods,or idols, for He was the only true God.

There is no word called trinity in the bible. Again, man misinterpreted the scriptures. They did not understand the nature of God. Trinitarians believe that God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, are 3 separate deities or persons, in
1 God. This isn't true. You can't hold that belief when He clearly states that I and the father are one, and also believe that Mary was impregnated by the Holy spirit. All 3 are God, just like you are yourself, your spirit is you too, and your words are you too. Jesus was more than just the son of God. That is secondary. His birth and death and rising again in three days was to show man that man too could have eternal life with God, if you believe in Jesus shedding His blood for our sins as the ultimate sacrifice. Jesus is no less than God. Jesus is God. God moves through His Holy Spirit, and His Word on Earth. God has never been seen by man, and the closest man came to seeing God was through Jesus, God's word made flesh. The whole point of Jesus being born on Earth, was for God to place Himself among His people, and show them the way to heaven Himself as Jesus. Everything Jesus did as a Human was to show man how to do it.
He is not now some small g god in he heaven, He is God's word. Jesus was God's son Only because he was begotten of a virgin, through God's Holy Spirit. This is how He is God and God's son simultaneously. But not as 3 distinct person's. The bible you are looking in must be a changed one, and not the King James Version.
Some religions even say Mary is the queen of heaven, and pray to her, and we know that's not right.

Answer 7

it was translated incorrectly in many places when first translated

it has been rewritten and "edited" several times - the most famous being the "king james VERSION"

it wasnt written in verses to begin with so this often changes some of the meanings

some books were omitted when the Bible was originally compiled

Answer 8

I was going to make a joke about their not having "Spell Check" in those days but after reading your long, long, long question I have to say you are seriously ill and need help. Anyone who would spend that much time on something like this has issues and needs professional counseling, and NOT with a "relegious" Counselor or Therapist. If you don't believe you're crazy....please, get someone elses opinion. You are traveling on a dangerous highway and if you don't seek help, you're going to end up in a serious crash. Good luck.

Answer 9

Er, isn't it silly to make lists of trivial inconsistencies in a book so deeply and obviously fictional?

This reminds me of the people who pick apart all the little details about the universe portrayed in "Star Trek". It doesn't matter if Spock didn't have a brother, or whatever - it's FICTION.

Answer 10

Because the Bible has been rewritten many times over to suit their lifestyles